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A born naturalist and a fearless traveler, Vladimir Dinets wrote travel guides, conducted field research, and lived a couple of lives before he was accepted into the PhD program in zoology at the University of Miami. He thought crocodiles were a dead-end research topic—survivors from the age of the dinosaurs but not much else—until he witnessed groups of up to seventy alligators performing mating choruses that included infrasound vibrations—a form of communication extremely rare in nature—and a “dance” unknown in the scientific literature but that resembled a scene from Jurassic Park. To prove his thesis about the language of crocodiles, he spent the next six years traveling around the world on shoestring budgets and in extreme circumstances, studying almost every living species.



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Vladimir Dinets

I grew up in Russia, moved to the US in the late 90's, and received a PhD in Zoology from the University of Miami for my research on songs and dances of crocodiles and alligators. I am studying complex animal behavior and the natural history of rare, little-known animals. I've traveled in more than a hundred countries, mostly for my research, but also because I love travel. My books about nature and my travel diaries have been popular in Russia for the past twenty years; I am now making them available as Kindle editions. Dragon Songs, my first popular book in English, came out in 2014 and got a Gold Star from Publishers' Weekly, as well as excellent readers' reviews.

My website: http://dinets.info
My bilingual (English/Russian) blog: http://vdinets.livejournal.com



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